Can anything positive come out of this crisis?
Published on 24th April 2025 The decisions of the new US administration to freeze aid and abolish USAID has sent shockwaves through the system. USA is the largest bilateral ODA...
How can access to sufficient, healthy and sustainable food be secured?
While this article closes the Focus, it also presents the views of one humanitarian actor, complementing the analyses of the preceding researchers and aimed at an audience that is perhaps...
Shrinking democratic space for civil society in Guatemala
In Guatemala, as in many other countries, the State is becoming increasingly hostile towards civil society organisations. This trend undermines the efforts of human rights organisations and, to a lesser...
India: countermodel, alternative or future partner?
Together with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and specialised United Nations (UN) entities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from international civil society are the third-largest family of international actors....
India’s humanitarian assistance abroad: a domestic and foreign policy issue
Although it has a strong civil society, India deploys its humanitarian aid mainly through bilateral and, gradually, multilateral channels. Rooted in a long-standing approach, indexed to both domestic and external...
The reception system for asylum seekers: are civil society organisations still free to pursue their mission?
Published on August 16, 2022 The impact of a management approach in line with market logic is increasingly felt, including in migrant aid schemes. This is what Giorgia Trasciani explains...
Extension of the “anti-associative counter-revolution”: diagnosis, challenges, solutions.
Co-director of this issue’s Focus, with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief
Russian civil society put to the test by the invasion of Ukraine
Does Russian civil society still exist since the invasion of Ukraine? After a look back at the conditions of its emergence in post-Soviet Russia, the authors go back over the...
The double bind facing civil society organisations: the Swiss example
What is happening in Switzerland, the birthplace of the International Committee of the Red Cross and a stronghold of international organisations and non-governmental organisations alike? The author calls our attention...
State-association relations: an authoritarian shift in contemporary France?
In France, relations between the State and the nonprofit sector have often been stormy – a sign of a healthy democratic system. However, here the authors explain that, for some years...
Support under control of civil society actors: the case of French and European international solidarity organisations
A fast-growing sector subject to severe constraints. This is the paradox in which civil society organisations in France and more broadly in Europe are struggling. The authors provide us with...
Civil society under siege in Turkey: authoritarianism, polarisation and counterstrategies
Turkey is, like Russia, a striking illustration of the shrinking of civic space as a result of authoritarian policies. The author paints a picture of the trends and practices at...